Evgeny Afineevsky – "Cries from Syria" (HBO)
Amir Bar-Lev – “Long Strange Trip” (Amazon Studios)
Matthew Heineman – “City of Ghosts” (Amazon Studios)
Bill Morrison – “Dawson City: Frozen Time” (Kino LHypnotic Pictures)
Doug Nichol – “California Typewriter” (Gravitas Ventures/American Buffalo Pictures)
Jeff Orlowski – “Chasing Coral” (Netflix)
Irene Taylor Brodsky – “Beware the Slenderman” (HBO)
Ceyda Torun – “Kedi” (YouTube Red)
Agnès Varda & JR – “Faces Places” (Cohen Media Group/Ciné Tamaris)
Frederick Wiseman – “Ex Libris: The New York Public Library” (Zipporah Films)
Total votes: 4